[reportlab-users] Error: test_pdfgen_general.py

[Michael Hipp]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy Robinson" <andy at reportlab.com>
> 
> > FAILED (errors=1)
> >
> > I'm on W2k SP4 and Python 2.4.2. I don't have PIL installed.
> >
> > Any help?
> 
> After inspecting the code I think it's that you don't have PIL
> installed; everyone here has been using PIL for so long that we have never 
> thought to run the tests without it.  I just renamed my PIL
> directory and get the same thing.
> 
> Sorry about this but it's a spurious test failure; you should have a lot of 
> other PDFs which did work.  And I recommend installing PIL as sooner or 
> later you will want to use a bitmap in a PDF.
> 
> If you don't want to install it, add the line below  "(w, h) = (144, 10)" 
> after line 696 and the test should complete.
> 
>      for i in range(5):
>          if haveImages:
>              (w, h) = c.drawImage(gif, (1.5 + i)*inch, 3*inch)
>          else:
>              (w, h) = (144, 10)
>              c.rect((1.5 + i)*inch, 3*inch, 110, 44)
> 
> I checked this change in.  With it, the test suite still generates some 
> failure messages but they all say clearly that PIL being missing is the 
> cause.

Thank you. It does indeed run correctly now. And some very impressive output I might add!

I might learn to like this.

Thanks,
Michael